Moran, Benjamin. The Journal of Benjamin Moran, 1857-1865. 2 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948.

Volume I When court is in mourning single women presented to diplomatic circle go in white; married women black, 660 William C. Rives, 660 Queen’s ball, 668-69 Lincoln, low opinion of candidate, Seward, 675 Slave ship, 676 James H. Thornwell, 686-87 Howell Cobb, 687 July 4, 689-90 Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, 693 Prince of Wales in , 734, 737 Elias Howe, 740-41 Election of Lincoln, 745 Royal dinners, 746 Dismisses secession talk, 748, 751 Secession, 753 Buchanan message, 754 Christmas, 757-58 Expects secession to be averted, 763 George Augustus Sala, 764 South Carolina secession, 764 Buchanan, 765 Charleston forts, 765-66 South Carolina, Jackson should have hanged Calhoun, 768-69 George M. Dallas, minister to England, passim, many references, despairs of county, 770 Civil war inevitable, 771 Star of the West, 772 Sumter, officer, 774 Wrote to Seward about his position, 775 Murder, 783-84 Lincoln inauguration, 784. 792 John L. O’Sullivan, John C. Frémont, 787-88 Washington peace conference, 788 George Francis Train, 793 Thomas Butler King, A. Dudley, Mann, 794 Seward, Dallas, Confederate recognition, 795 A. Dudley Mann, 799 After Fort Sumter, favors war to the knife, slavery, 801-2 Blockade, 804 Attack on Massachusetts soldiers in Baltimore, 804 Arousal of northern opinion, 805 Anxious for news, excitement in the legation, 805-6

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John Russell, recognize Confederates as belligerents, 806-7 Visit of Unionists, 807 Dayton at heart a secessionist but lacks courage to take a stand, 808 Charles Francis Adams, new minister, Adams inclined to swear at uncivil servants, 809-10 Dallas takes his leave, critique of Dallas as a weak and vain man, 811-12

Volume II Copy Adams’ first dispatch, 815 Murder at sea, 815 Adams and John Russell, 816 Confederates have reportedly stolen Washington’s bones from Mount Vernon, 818 Confederates frightened by northern determination, 819 Criticism of preachers, 822-23 John Russell, Privateers, 825 Social rights, 826-27 Dispatch bags, 827 Accusation that Harvey, minister to Portugal is a traitor, 834 Dallas as a Union man, 837 McDowell and McClellan, 838 July 4, 839 Palmerston, 840 Confederates and passports, 840 Louisiana Unionists, oath, 847 Doubts about McDowell, 850 William L. Dayton, 850 Parliamentary debates, 851 Bull Run, 857-58 Paris Declaration, 864-65 Oath, 866 Anson Burlingame, 867-68 John Lothrop Motley, Seward, 872 Confederate, treasonable letters, 872-73 Dispatch bag, 873 John Bigelow, 875 Tribune reports Adams saying government would soon recognize Confederates, 876 Butler, Hatteras Inlet, 878 Passport requirement, 879 Oath requirement, 880 Adams said Lincoln had no idea about diplomacy or diplomatic appointments, 880 Abuse in press about offer of a command to Garibaldi, 881-82 Murder on American ship, 887 American consults unfit, 887 Confederate blockade runner, 887-88 Blockade running, 893 Spying from Minister Sanford in Brussels, 899 Ball’s Bluff, 903

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A. Dudley Mann, 903 Yancey and Mann, 903-4 London newspaper editors, 908 Photographs of McClellan, 908 Confederate ship Nashville, Captain Nelson and the Harvey Birch, 909-10 English, negotiations with Confederates, John Russell, 911-14 , possible war, 913-41, 948 Mass, 914 Great excitement in England, 916-17 Lincoln appointed ignorant consuls in the islands, 918 Thurlow Weed, 918-19 English policy permanent disruption of the Union, 919 Charleston, Dupont, Sherman, 920 Arrest of Mason and Slidell, 922 Illness and death of Prince Albert, 925-29 Review of 1861, 934-35 Rumor of destruction of Charleston, 936 Nashville and the Tuscarora, 942-43, 947-49 Stone fleet, Charleston, 944-45 J. Sella Martin, 946 Mill Springs, death of Zollicoffer, 949 Black Haitian representative, 950 Cobden, Mason, 950-51 Yancey and Mann dispatch, John Russell, 951 Thurlow Weed, a London editor, 951 Alcohol, loose women, 952 British electoral violence, 954 English selfishness, 960 Fort Donelson, 961-62 Mason, Yancey, blockade runners, 961 Parliamentary debate on the war, 962-64 Capture of Nashville, 965 Declarations of Parish, 967-68 Social event at Lady Palmerston’s 968-70 Hampton Roads, Monitor and Merrimac, 970-72, 975 Large American donation to poor of London, 972 Henry Adams and society, 973 Charles Nordhoff, 974 African slave trade treaty, Seward, 976 Ironclads, 976 Dayton and Napoleon III, 979 Shiloh, 982 Blockade runners, Liverpool, 984 London Exhibition, 989-91 Walking in Kent, Oxford, 992-996 Evening reception, Mrs. Adams, 996-97

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Lord Russell reply to Charles Francis Adams, 998-1000 Social affair at Lady Palmerston’s, 1000-1003 Norman Judd, minister to Berlin, 1004 Poor quality of consuls, 1004 Fall of New Orleans, 1005 Confederate evacuation of Yorktown, 1007 Lord Russell, British neutrality, 1007 Simon Cameron, 1008, 1010 John Russell, Mexico, 1010 Social affair at Lord Granville’s, 1013-14 Great London Carnival, Derby Day, 1014-17 South Kensington Museum soiree, 1017-18 Ephraim Cutter, 1018 Banks and Jackson, Valley campaign, Seward, 1018-19 Consuls, 1019-20 English press and mediation, 1020 McClellan on the Peninsula, 1021 Visit from an American Indian, 1021 Rumor of Confederate defeat near Richmond, 1021-22 Adams, Russell, Seward dispatch, 1024, 1055 Capture of Memphis, 1024-25 Hastings, 1025-27 Correspondence between Adams and Palmerston, 1027-29 Croquet, minister, 1030 Reception at Russian embassy, 1031-32 London exhibition, 1034-35 Black man preaching against English intervention, 1035-36 Confederate circulated false report that McClellan had surrendered at Harrison’s Landing, 1037 Parliamentary motion to recognize Confederacy, 1038, 1040-44 Concert and ball, 1038-39 Seven Days, 1045 Nassau, Adams and Russell, 1047-48 Visit to Chiltern Hills, 1048-53 Seward dispatch, 1057 Palmerston, 1058 Tuscarora, 1059 McClellan retreat from Peninsula, 1060 Confederate pirate ship, Bulloch, 1063-64 Trip to Godstone, 1066-70 John Pope, Second Bull Run, 1071 George P. Marsh, McClellan, 1071-72 Maryland, Antietam campaign, 1072-76 Theater, 1072-73 Blockade runner, 1074 William Cornell Jewett. 1076 Woman charged with poisoning, 1077

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Southern Unionists, 1077 Emancipation Proclamation, 1077 Consul to Sweden, 1080 Jeb Stuart riding around McClellan’s army, 1082-83 Visit to Malvern, 1084 Complaints about consular agents, oaths, 1085 Guy Fawkes Day, effigy of Ben Butler, 1087 Escaped slave, servant, 1088-90 Russia, France, possible intervention, John Russell, 1088-90 Election of Horatio Seymour, Fernando Wood, 1091 Adams, Lincoln mismanagement and recent elections, poor cabinet,1092 Compensation for ships destroyed by British pirate, 1092 Russell, Adams, charges of recruiting for northern army in England, 1092 Francis Lawley, 1095-96 Christy Minstrels, 1096 Confederate bonds in England, 1096-97 Trouble with the consults, 1098 Burnside, Fredericksburg, 1098, 1100-1101 Adams, Seward dispatches published, 1099 John Russell note to Adams, 1100 Times of London and English people, opinion, 1101-1102 Seward cabinet crisis, 1102-1103 Tory speeches on American affairs, 1104 Antietam wounded, surgeon, 1105 Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation, British newspapers, 1106 Emancipation meeting in England, dissenting clergy, Emancipation Society of London, 1107- 1108 Stones River, 1109 Emancipation Proclamation and English opinion, 1110 John Russell and Pirate No. 290, 1112-13, 1115 Emancipation Proclamation meeting, 1115 British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, Adams, Sella Martin, 1116-17 George N. Sanders, intercepted Confederate dispatches, 1117 Parliamentary debate, Palmerton, American affairs, 1117-18 Escape of ship Sumter, unfriendly act of English government, 1118 Manchester, Lincoln reply to workingmen, 1119-20 Henry Adams, working addresses to Lincoln on Emancipation Proclamation, 1120 James M. Mason, 1120 Criticism of Adams for not inviting secretaries to his dinners, 1121 Charleston, blockade, 1121, 1123 Washington’s birthday, 1123 Lady Palmerston, Adams, party, 1125-26 Chinese ships in England, 1126-27 Blockade runner, 290, Adams, 1127 French intervention, 1127 Criticism of Adams, 1128

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Princess Alexandra reception, 1129 Ramble along the Thames, Chertsy, 1130-33 Royal wedding, 1134 John Russell dispatches to Adams, 1135 Queen Victoria, 1135 Exclusiveness of English society, 1136 Loan for Confederates, 1136-37 Mexican arms, 1137 John Russell and Adams, 1138 Laird rams, 1138-42, 1144 Blockade runners, 1042-43 Thomas Dudley, Liverpool consul, 1145 et passim Liverpool ship building, 1144-46 Robert J. Walker, 1148-1149 John A. Kasson, 1150 Adams letter, DuPont, rumor of his recall, 1150 Lord Russell, Adams, British sailors in Confederate service, 1151 Cobden, English neutrality, 1152 Charleston ironclads, 1153 Seizure of blockade runners, 1154 Prince de Joinville, 1155 William M. Evarts, 1155 Country ramble, 1156-1159 Adams and DuPont letter, 1161 Moncure Conway, 1161 Adams manners, unpopularity, 1163 Princess of Wales levee, 1163-64 Chancellorsville, 1165, 1167 Complaints against Adams and Henry Adams, 1166-67 Adams, Howell and Zerman and Mexican arms, 1167 (earlier references and later references too) Blockade runner, 1170 Henry Adams, 1171 Blockade runner, 1171-72 Cornell Jewett, 1172 Memorial to Prince Albert, 1172-73 Case of blockade runner Alexandra, 1176 Roebuck, Confederate recognition, Gladstone, 1179 Henry Ward Beecher, 1180 Laird rams, 1181-82 Roebuck, Lindsay, Napoleon III, French recognition, 1183 Paris, 1183-86 Robert J. Walker, lost book from British Museum, 1186-87 New York draft riots, 1188 No. 290 and destruction of American commerce, 1188 Trip to Henley, 1189-1195 Confederate loan, 1195

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Arming a Confederate ship, 1196 Laird rams, 1197-98, 1200, 1202, 1209-11, 1214, 1218-19, 1230 French and Mexican arms, 1198 William Whiting, 1198-99 Complains of Adams being in Scotland for long periods, 1199 Bombardment of Charleston, 1203 Visit to Walton-on-Thames, 1203-1208 Robert J. Walker, Buchanan, 1209, 1231 Charleston, Henry Ward Beecher, 1211 Recall of James M. Mason, 1212 Messenger, swindler, liar, mistresses, forger, 1213 Alabama, 1213 et passim, often referred as the 290, 1231, 1233 Theater, 1217 Chickamauga, Rosecrans, 1218 Anonymous note damning everyone, 1220 John Russell, a rare civil note, 1220 Incompetence in War and Navy departments, 1221-22 Robert J. Walker, balloon, 1222 Leonards-on-Sea, Battle Abbey, 1223-27 Henry Ward Beecher speech, Cobden,1227-28 Pro-Confederate members of Parliament, 1229-30 Charles Augustus Sala, 1234 Thanksgiving, Lincoln proclamation, 1239 George Peabody, Mason, Slidell, 1242 Adams and John Russell discuss Confederate war operations in England, 1244 Westminster School, 1247 Trying year of 1863, 1250 Fulham for New Year’s, 1251-52 Shakespeare committee, 1253-54 Adams and William M. Evarts, 1255 Washington’s birthday, 1266-67 Sella Martin, 1267 Robert J. Walker, 1267 Confederate ship Tuscaloosa, 1268 Henry Adams, status at Court, 1269-70 Fleet to suppress slave trade, 1272 Blockade runners, 1275 Kearsarge, 1279-81 Queen Victoria’s reception for diplomatic corps, 1282 Garibaldi, 1283, 1285-87 Crowhurst, 1291-94 “Georgia” or the “Japan” Liverpool, 1296, 1311-12 et passim Defeat of Sigel and Butler, 1302 Semmes, Alabama, 1307-8 Capture of Atlanta, 1307-8 Visit to Warwickshire, 1311

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Henry Adams, 1314, 1317 Promoted to Secretary of the Legation, 1314 Rumors that Lincoln will not be reelected, Copperheads, 1315-16 Marriage of Belle Boyd, 1317 Semmes, 1320, 1338 James M. Mason, cotton, 1321 Spiritualism, medium, 1325 Deserters from a United States ship, 1326 Passports, 1326-27 McClellan, acceptance of Democratic nomination, 1328 Peace address to United States, 1329 Charge against a Federal official of receiving Yancey and Rost, 1330-31 John Russel, the Alabama, 1332 Dinner with mayor of London, members of Parliament, 1332-34 Frederick Seward, 1337 Poor people begging at ministry, frequent occurrence, 1340 et passim Sheridan victory, 1344 Cobden, home, 1345-46 Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thumb, 1349, 1352 Recruiting British citizens for Federal army, 1351 Peace negotiations, Jefferson Davis, 1353 William L. Dayton death, 1354 Sherman will reach the coast, 1358 Sherman and Savannah, defeat of Hood, 1361 London newspaper always lie about the United States, 1363 Lincoln’s reelection, 1370 Wilmington, 1370, 1390 Tories worried about Federal success and possible turn against England, 1372 Adams did provide government enough information about fitting out Confederate ships in England, 1375 McClellan in England, 1374-75 Fitting out Confederate ships and recruiting soldiers, 1378 Kearsarge and Alabama, 1379 Charleston, Fort Sumter, 1386-87 Charles Francis Adams often indifferent to his duties, 1391 Parliamentary debate, United States-English relations, 1392-93 Lincoln second inaugural address, 1395 Confederate dispatches, 1399, 1401 Rumor of Jefferson Davis resignation, 1402 Cobden’s death, Disraeli, 1403-7 Fernando Wood, 1410, 1416-18 Capture of Richmond and Petersburg, 1410 Seward’s carriage accident, 1413 Lee’s surrender, 1414 Lincoln assassination, 1415-22 Anonymous note on Lincoln’s descent into Hell, 1418

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Hollaway City Prison, prisoner supposedly implicated in Lincoln’s assassination, 1423-24 John Wilkes Booth, 1424-25 proclamation, Jefferson Davis, 1429 Virginia visitors, rebellion at an end, 1432 Capture of Jefferson Davis, 1434

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